Also SlowCorp has magically 50x better networking equipment than NormalCorp, and 50x higher rate limits on every site they’re trying to scrape, and 50x as much sensor data from any process in the world, and 50x faster shipping on any physical components they need, etc etc (and AutomatedCorp has magically 50x worse of all of those things).
But yeah, agreed that you should ignore all of those intuitions when considering the “1 week” scenario—I just found that I couldn’t actually turn all of those intuitions off when considering the scenario.
Yep, but my understanding is that the time associated with marginal scraping, sensor data, and physical components don’t matter much when talking about AI progress which is on the order of a year. Or honestly, maybe marginal improvements in these sorts of components don’t matter that much at all over this time scale (like freezing all these things for a year wouldn’t be much tax if you prepped in advance). Not super sure about situation with scrapping though.
Also SlowCorp has magically 50x better networking equipment than NormalCorp, and 50x higher rate limits on every site they’re trying to scrape, and 50x as much sensor data from any process in the world, and 50x faster shipping on any physical components they need, etc etc (and AutomatedCorp has magically 50x worse of all of those things).
But yeah, agreed that you should ignore all of those intuitions when considering the “1 week” scenario—I just found that I couldn’t actually turn all of those intuitions off when considering the scenario.
Yep, but my understanding is that the time associated with marginal scraping, sensor data, and physical components don’t matter much when talking about AI progress which is on the order of a year. Or honestly, maybe marginal improvements in these sorts of components don’t matter that much at all over this time scale (like freezing all these things for a year wouldn’t be much tax if you prepped in advance). Not super sure about situation with scrapping though.